Motivational Quotes

Love

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

- Bernard, St.

Best Quotes about Love

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we doà?

Friedrich Nietzsche

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes -- and the stars through his soul.

Hugo, Victor

Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and very important.

Hoffman, Lisa

Love is all you need.

Mccartney, Paul

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Bacon, Francis

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Stael, Germaine De

I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

Mencken, H. L.

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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Jeff Melvoin

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Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Ackerman, Diane

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Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

Bataille, Georges

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

Rich, Adrienne

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Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

Upanishads, Veda

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You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love.

Ferry, Brian

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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.

Reagan, Ronald

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It is easy to halve the potato where there is love.

Proverb, Irish

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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Gibran, Kahlil

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The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

W. Somerset Maugham

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But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

William Shakespeare

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Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them.

Carroll, Pat

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.

Proust, Marcel

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The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy --yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Algren, Nelson

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The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

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Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

Mitchell, John N.

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I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

Sand, George

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Love the giver more than the gift.

Young, Brigham

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

Bailey, Pearl

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Love bears it out even to the edge of doom.

Shakespeare, William

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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.

Angelis, Barbara De

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To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Hugo, Victor

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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

Angelis, Barbara De

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I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

Michael Patrick King

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There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.

William Shakespeare

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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his shadow, drag him into a murderous future. It is to circle around the other like a dead star and absorb him into a black light.

Baudrillard, Jean

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All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear.

William Shakespeare

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When love begins to sicken and decay, it useth an enforced ceremony.

William Shakespeare

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Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.

Cummings, Fr. Jerome

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Buscaglia, Leo

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My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Wilde, Oscar

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One is very crazy when in love.

Freud, Sigmund

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Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome, Jerome K.

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She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.

William Shakespeare

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If marriage is your object, you'd better start loving your subject.

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We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds and new friends will be.

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When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.

Euripides